I DO! I DO! (1982 TV Movie - Lee Remick & Hal Linden)

[cwrdlylyn]

Posted: 4/7/20 at 7:55pm

Does anyone know a way to watch any pieces of this?

I remember finding clips online a few years ago when I was researching the show... but now in quarantine, I went to look up clips or see if the full performance was available online and it literally seems to exist nowhere anymore.  

Does anyone know about this performance?  I was apparently released on VHS and I know I've seen Youtube clips before... is there a reason it would have been erased from online access?  Anyone know a way to get it or by any chance have it?

Updated On: 4/7/20 at 07:55 PM

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/7/20 at 9:37pm

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/7/20 at 9:43pm

I had no idea this was filmed. And directed by Terry Hughes! Wow. Hopefully one day it will find its way to a DVD release along with Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s Philemon which I know was also broadcast on television at one point.

[David10086]

Posted: 4/7/20 at 10:14pm

I hope someone finds this on TV , the write up on the back of the box looks great. I want to see it! However, weren’t the two stars too young to play a couple married for fifty years??

[JSquared2]

Posted: 4/7/20 at 10:25pm

David10086 said: "I hope someone finds this on TV , the write up on the back of the box looks great. I want to see it! However, weren’t the two stars too young to play a couple married for fifty years?? "

Robert Preston was 48 and Mary Martin was 53— so apparently actual age isn’t particularly relevant to the success of the show. 

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 4/7/20 at 11:00pm

Aren't they supposed to be playing out the whole marriage? They haven't been married for 50 years at the start of the show.

[cwrdlylyn]

Posted: 4/7/20 at 11:32pm

Yes that VHS is totally it!

I know I watched at least clips of this telecast in the past, I'm pretty positive it was on Youtube.  It seems like it's been wiped off the internet.

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/8/20 at 8:41am

I have a vague recollection of seeing this. Somehow I think it was a late night telecast--sort of the way APPLAUSE was.

[cwrdlylyn]

Posted: 4/8/20 at 9:33pm

After a full day of searching, seems like the only avenue to possibly view a recording of this is via this link... 

https://www.robertsvideos.com/product.php3?invid=65474&ref=/browse.php3?alpha=I

Anyone have any experience with this site?  I don't know if I trust it. 

Is there anyone else out there who remembers this being available on Youtube before?  I swear this has been erased from the internet... but why?  Is someone gonna release it?

[inception]

Posted: 4/9/20 at 8:58am

Why has it been wiped from the internet:
Because it includes copywritten material and was not legally distributed on youtube. The rights for the VHS were limited to that release.

The show is still available to licence for new productions, and copies of the recording of the Original Broadway Cast on compact disc can be legally purchased.

The video service offering a copy for sale will illegally duplicate the copy they own. There are many such websites offering different illegal copies of hard to find films - some are not outright illegal if the material is no longer under copyright. Usually they are just somebody working out of their house with a few machines set up to make copies. After you put in an order, depending on how quickly the person works, you can usually get what you ordered within a month. Don't expect good quality. Some sell pre-made copies of items on ebay.

I bought a copy of the Fred Astiare/Betty Hutton film Let's Dance on dvd off ebay a couple years ago. It is a film that Paramount - like most Betty Hutton films - seems to either have lost the masters to or just let the copyright expire. What I got was a recording on a dvdR from an old VHS tape. Lousy quality, but I got to see the film.

Something I would love to get a proper remastered release of is the 1944 film version of Lady in the Dark starring Ginger Rogers, but the rights holders to the original Broadway play seem to want it forever forgotten.

Sometimes studios eventually get around to releasing materials. For example, Warner's just this year finally issued for the 1st time the long shelved Natalie Wood comedy Penelope in a stunning remastered blu-ray. It looks gorgeous, though it is unfortunately not a great film.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/9/20 at 9:23am

Warner Home Video has the resources to master DVDs and Blu-rays per order, which is why we now have tons of films that never were released officially. 1966’s PENELOPE is one of these films. It never would have been released on home video as a regular release. Would be great if other studios started this “per order” scenario so we can have excellent quality releases of rare films that aren’t popular titles which is why they were never released.  

[cwrdlylyn]

Posted: 4/16/20 at 11:02am

Just giving this a bump to see if anyone else might know anything of the show... maybe a way to access watching it or just a review of what you recall from watching?

I've become interested in this musical lately just listening to the Vinyl soundtrack in quarantine.  Would anyone by any chance know if there is a way to read this script?  I looked through Google but there really isn't much that I could find.

Appreciate any feedback... thanks!

[Dollypop]

Posted: 4/23/20 at 1:57pm

You know there was an Off Bwy revival of the show that played at the Lambs Theater. It started Karen Ziemba and David Garrison. It was available on cd.

There was considerable controversy over the lyric; "That's why a woman is only alive when in love" and it was changed to something bizarre

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/23/20 at 2:18pm

Had the VHS .Burned it to a DVD. I still have the DVD

[Demitri2]

Posted: 4/23/20 at 2:26pm

IIRC, I viewed this show on a pay station like Showtime or HBO back in the eighties (much like HBO's CAMELOT with Richard Harris). Although I enjoyed Lee Remick as an actress playing Agnes was way beyond her talents. Her "Flaming Agnes" was embarrassing to watch. Hal Linden was fine though. I agree it sounds like fun but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it.  

Updated On: 10/27/21 at 02:26 PM

[mikey2573]

Posted: 4/24/20 at 1:07am

I remember seeing it and I even recorded it off the tv on an old Betamax machine.  I remember liking it quite a lot and found the ending in particular to be very moving. 

[noradesmond]

Posted: 4/24/20 at 7:16pm

Demitri2 said: "IIRC, I viewed this show on a pay station like Showtime or HBO back in the eighties (much like HBO's CAMELOT with Richard Harris). Although I enjoyed Lee Remick as an actress playing Agnes was way beyond her talents. Her "Flaming Agnes" was embarrassing to watch. Hal Linden was fine though. I agree it sounds like fun but I wouldn't go out of my to see it."

I don't remember this TV movie of I DO, I DO, sadly, so can't comment on the performances. But I do remember a late 60s TV movie of DAMN YANKEES with Lee Remick as Lola. I also liked her as an actress but her Lola was a letdown. 

[MichelleCraig]

Posted: 4/24/20 at 10:59pm

I had no idea this was ever broadcast or made available on home video. I admit that when I was younger and collecting Broadway cast albums, this show was never on my radar. Now, being somewhat older and maybe a little wiser, I listen to the Broadway cast recording with Robert Preston and Mary Martin a couple of times a year. Bittersweet...

I remember my parents having several albums that included covers of "My Cup Runneth Over With Love"...

[inception]

Posted: 4/25/20 at 11:11am

I don't have any news on I do! I do! But after my 1st post on this thread, I did more googling for the Ginger Rogers movie and found the following site that has a lot of streams of old movies that have gone out of copyright. They have Lady in the Dark - though it looks like from an old VHS. The quality of most stuff ain't great, but at least it is something. After reading bew posts here today, I went and put Mary Martin in the search there & found a few of her movies from The 40's. All sorts of interesting stuff if you want to do a little digging.

http://rarefilmm.com/

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/26/20 at 3:53am

Mr Roxy said: "Had the VHS .Burned it to a DVD. I still have the DVD "

 

Gurl, sharing is caring.

 

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/26/20 at 7:45am

Updated On: 4/26/20 at 07:45 AM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 4/26/20 at 5:21pm

I have a vague memory of having seeing this broadcast in the 1980s on cable. I was either Showtime or HBO, other than that I don't remember much about it.

I do remember reading somewhere that in the 1960's their was a movie adaptation in the works that never materialized re-teaming Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke. 

[Demitri2]

Posted: 4/27/20 at 12:17pm

Another news item at the time was the reteaming of Andrews and Van Dyke in SHE LOVES ME. Apparently, 20th Century Fox Pictures had a three-picture. deal with Andrews. However, the studio dropped their option after STAR and  DARLING LILI performed so poorly at the box office. I think Andrews would've sung the role of Amalia Balash beautifully. Yet, I would've have minded if it was I DO! I DO! either.  

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/27/20 at 3:59pm

Demitri2 said: "Another news itemat the time was the reteaming of Andrews and Van Dyke in SHE LOVES. I think Andrews would've sung the role of Amalia Balash beautifully.”

 

[Demitri2]

Posted: 4/28/20 at 1:42pm

Thanks BrodyFosse123. She's wonderful.I always enjoy your posts :)